Yoenis Cespedes was the highest impact offensive player left on the market, and three minutes prior to the 4 p.m. ET non-waiver Trade Deadline on Friday, the Mets acquired him from the Tigers.
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With Major League Baseball's non-waiver Trade Deadline hovering ahead at 4 p.m. ET on Friday, make no mistake about it -- all of the rumors have a deleterious effect on the players. No matter what they might say.
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Third baseman David Wright took grounders on a Major League infield before the Mets' 4-0 win over the Padres on Tuesday for the first since he was placed on the disabled list with spinal stenosis on April 15. The 32-year-old also took batting practice in the cage and ran.
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It's the day after the induction ceremonies when the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame always experience a sense of satisfaction mixed with relief. The speeches are over, and so is the good-natured heckling from the men who gather every summer, most of them having long been members of the Hall.
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The Braves of 1991-2005 won a record 14 consecutive division titles, five National League pennants and the 1995 World Series. So it should come as no surprise that Atlanta's core players of that era have begun to dominate the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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With all due apologies to the Seattle Mariners, Randy Johnson is going into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 26 in Cooperstown, N.Y., wearing an Arizona Diamondbacks emblem on his plaque. He'll be the first D-backs player to do so.
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Jake Peavy and the defending World Series-champion Giants lost, 4-1, to Jacob deGrom and the Mets on Wednesday in a battle of attrition between an old-school veteran right-hander and one of the great young studs of New York's starting rotation.
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Madison Bumgarner should be the starter for the National League against his American League counterparts next Tuesday in the All-Star Game presented by T-Mobile at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. It's as simple as that.
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Matt Harvey at times has showed signs of struggle through his first year pitching after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. There is such a thing as Tommy John surgery fatigue and Harvey showed the vestiges of it on Saturday in a 4-3 loss to the Dodgers.
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No one has to read too much between the lines. Mets captain and third baseman David Wright isn't going to return from stenosis in his lower spine anytime soon. Consequently, if the Mets are going to find any help for their beleaguered offense, ranked 29th in the Major Leagues, it's going to have to be from elsewhere.
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When John Smoltz is inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 26, he will be the first pitcher to go in having undergone ligament replacement surgery -- today almost universally known as Tommy John surgery -- at some point during his career. And he may very well be the last.
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The big offseason trade that sent Matt Kemp from the Dodgers to the Padres has been turned upside down and analyzed from the San Diego end. But the Los Angeles has also been a big beneficiary of the Dec. 18 deal too.
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